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Lexicon :: Strong's H1245 - bāqaš

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בָּקַשׁ
Transliteration
bāqaš
Pronunciation
baw-kash'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 276

Strong’s Definitions

בָּקַשׁ bâqash, baw-kash'; a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after:—ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x

The KJV translates Strong's H1245 in the following manner: seek (189x), require (14x), request (4x), seek out (4x), enquired (3x), besought (2x), ask (2x), sought for (2x), begging (1x), desire (1x), get (1x), inquisition (1x), procureth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x
The KJV translates Strong's H1245 in the following manner: seek (189x), require (14x), request (4x), seek out (4x), enquired (3x), besought (2x), ask (2x), sought for (2x), begging (1x), desire (1x), get (1x), inquisition (1x), procureth (1x).

  1. to seek, require, desire, exact, request

    1. (Piel)

      1. to seek to find

      2. to seek to secure

      3. to seek the face

      4. to desire, demand

      5. to require, exact

      6. to ask, request

    2. (Pual) to be sought

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּקַשׁ bâqash, baw-kash'; a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after:—ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
STRONGS H1245: Abbreviations
† [בָּקַשׁ]224 verb seek (Phoenician בקש) —
Pi. Perfect בִּקֵּשׁ Deuteronomy 13:11 + 15 times; בִּקְשָׁה Ecclesiastes 7:28; Esther 2:15; suffix בִּקְשָׁתַם Hosea 2:9; בִּקַּשְׁתִּיו Songs 3:1, 2; compare Songs 5:6; בִּקְשׁוּ Ezra 2:62 + 12 times; suffix בִּקְשֻׁנִי Isaiah 65:1 + 2 times; Imperfect יְבַקֵשׁ Joshua 22:23 + 37 times; יְבַקֶּש־ Proverbs 15:14 + 2 times; אֲבַקְשָׁה Psalm 122:9 + 3 times; suffix יְבַקְשֵׁהוּ 1 Samuel 23:14 + 7 times; יְבַקְשׁוּ 1 Samuel 16:16 + 23 times; Imperative בַקֵּשׁ 1 Samuel 9:3 + 3 times; בַּקְּשׁוּ 1 Samuel 28:7 + 8 times; Infinitive לְבַקֵּשׁ 1 Samuel 10:2 + 29 times; Participle מְבַקֵּשׁ Genesis 37:16 + 23 times; plural מְבַקְשִׁים Exodus 10:11 + 38 times; —
1. seek to find:
a. absolute Judges 6:29; 2 Kings 2:17; Jeremiah 5:1; Ezekiel 34:6; Ecclesiastes 3:6; Ecclesiastes 8:17 (yet see Ew).
b. accusative Genesis 37:15, 16; Joshua 2:22 (J) Judges 4:22; Judges 14:4; 1 Samuel 9:3; 1 Samuel 10:2, 14, 21; 1 Samuel 16:16; 1 Samuel 23:14, 25; 1 Samuel 24:3; 1 Samuel 26:2; 1 Samuel 27:1, 4 + 1 Samuel 26:20 object a flea, but read נַפְשִׁי Greek Version of the LXX Th We Kirkp Klo Dr; 2 Samuel 17:3, 20; 1 Kings 1:3; 1 Kings 2:40; 1 Kings 18:10; 2 Kings 2:16; 2 Kings 6:19; 1 Chronicles 4:39; 2 Chronicles 22:9; Ezra 2:62 (= Nehemiah 7:64) Nehemiah 12:27; Psalm 37:25; Psalm 37:36; Psalm 119:176; Proverbs 2:4; Proverbs 21:6; Proverbs 23:35; Proverbs 7:28; Songs 3:1 (twice in verse); Songs 3:2 (twice in verse); Songs 5:6; Songs 6:1; Isaiah 41:12, 17; Jeremiah 2:24, 33; Lamentations 1:11; Ezekiel 7:25; Ezekiel 22:30; Ezekiel 34:4, 16; Hosea 2:9; Nahum 3:11; Zechariah 11:16; Malachi 2:15.
c. with לְ Job 10:6.
d. accusative of thing לְ person Judges 18:1; 1 Samuel 13:14; 1 Samuel 28:7; 1 Kings 1:2; Ruth 3:1; Esther 2:2; Psalm 122:9; Isaiah 40:20; Lamentations 1:19; Nahum 3:7.
2. seek to secure:
a. accusative the priesthood Numbers 16:10 (P); David for king 2 Samuel 3:17; in battle 2 Samuel 5:17 (= 1 Chronicles 14:8); Psalm 27:4; Jeremiah 45:5 (compare Jeremiah 45:5); בקשׁ נפשׁ seek to take one's life Exodus 4:19 (J) 1 Samuel 20:1; 1 Samuel 22:23 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 23:15; 1 Samuel 25:29; 2 Samuel 4:8; 2 Samuel 16:11; 1 Kings 19:10, 14; Psalm 35:4; Psalm 38:13; Psalm 40:15; Psalm 54:5; Psalm 63:10; Psalm 70:3; Psalm 86:14; Proverbs 29:10; Jeremiah 4:30; Jeremiah 11:21; Jeremiah 19:7, 9; Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 22:25; Jeremiah 34:20, 21; Jeremiah 38:16; Jeremiah 44:30 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 46:26; Jeremiah 49:37.
b. aim at, practise: בקשׁ רעה seek hurt of Numbers 35:23 (P) 1 Samuel 24:10; 1 Samuel 25:26 (אֶל) 1 Kings 20:7; Psalm 71:13; Psalm 71:24; Esther 9:2; כזב ב׳ Psalm 4:3 compare Proverbs 17:11, שׁבר Proverbs 17:19, רצון Proverbs 11:27, טובה Nehemiah 2:10, אמונה Jeremiah 5:1, צדק, ענוה Zephaniah 2:3 (twice in verse) שׁלום Psalm 34:15, חכמה Proverbs 14:6; Ecclesiastes 7:25, בינה Daniel 8:15, דעת Proverbs 15:14; Proverbs 18:15, תורה Malachi 2:7, אהבה Proverbs 17:9, תאוה Proverbs 18:1 (ל of direct object), חשׁבנות Ecclesiastes 7:29.
c. Infinitive Exodus 4:24 (J) Jeremiah 26:21.
d. לְ & Infinitive Genesis 43:30; Exodus 2:15; Exodus 10:11 (JE) Deuteronomy 13:11; 1 Samuel 14:4; 1 Samuel 19:2, 10; 1 Samuel 23:10; 2 Samuel 20:19; 2 Samuel 21:2; 1 Kings 11:22, 40; Esther 2:21; Esther 3:6; Esther 6:2; Psalm 37:22; Ecclesiastes 12:10; Zechariah 6:7; Zechariah 12:9.
3. seek the face
a. of rulers 1 Kings 10:24 (= 2 Chronicles 9:23) Proverbs 29:26.
b. of God (from resorting to sacred places) Hosea 5:15; 1 Chronicles 16:11 (= Psalm 105:4) 2 Chronicles 7:14; 2 Samuel 21:1; Psalm 24:6; Psalm 27:8 (twice in verse); without פּֽנֵי.
c. יהוה Deuteronomy 4:29; Zephaniah 1:6; Zephaniah 2:3; Hosea 3:5, 5; Hosea 5:6; Exodus 33:7 (J) 1 Chronicles 16:10 (= Psalm 105:3) 2 Chronicles 11:16; 20:4; Isaiah 51:1; Proverbs 28:5; Zechariah 8:21, 22; Jeremiah 50:4; אלהים 2 Samuel 12:16, compare Ezekiel 8:22; Isaiah 45:19; Isaiah 65:1; 2 Chronicles 15:4, 15; Hosea 7:10; Jeremiah 29:13; Malachi 3:1; Psalm 40:17; Psalm 70:5; Psalm 69:7; Daniel 9:3; דבר י׳ Amos 8:12; שׁמך Psalm 83:17.
d. followed by Infinitive with לְ, of resort to wizards, but object not expressed Leviticus 19:34 (H).
4. desire, demand:
a. accusative 1 Chronicles 21:3.
b. accusative of thing מִן person Ezekiel 7:26; Daniel 1:20.
5.
a. require, exact, accusative of thing מִיַּד person Isaiah 1:12; מִן person Nehemiah 5:12, accusative of thing Nehemiah 5:18.
b. exact equivalent or penalty for, accusative of thing, מִיַּד person Genesis 31:39; Genesis 43:9 (JE) 1 Samuel 20:16; 2 Samuel 4:11; Ezekiel 3:18, 20; Ezekiel 33:8, compare דרשׁ; no object expressed Joshua 22:23 (P).
6. (late) ask, request, accusative of thing Esther 2:15; עַל of thing Nehemiah 2:4; עַל of thing מִן person Esther 7:7; Ezra 8:23; עַל of thing מִלִּפְנֵי person Esther 4:8; accusative of thing מִן person Daniel 1:8 (object clause with אשׁר), Psalm 104:21; מִן person 2 Chronicles 20:4.
Pu. Imperfect יְבֻקַּשׁ Jeremiah 50:20, וַיְב׳ Esther 2:23; תֲּבֻקְשִׁי Ezekiel 26:21 be sought.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:39; 37:15; 37:16; 37:16; 43:9; 43:30

Exodus

2:15; 4:19; 4:24; 10:11; 10:11; 33:7

Leviticus

19:34

Numbers

16:10; 35:23

Deuteronomy

4:29; 13:11; 13:11

Joshua

2:22; 22:23; 22:23

Judges

4:22; 6:29; 14:4; 18:1

Ruth

3:1

1 Samuel

9:3; 9:3; 10:2; 10:2; 10:14; 10:21; 13:14; 14:4; 16:16; 16:16; 19:2; 19:10; 20:1; 20:16; 22:23; 23:10; 23:14; 23:14; 23:15; 23:25; 24:3; 24:10; 25:26; 25:29; 26:2; 26:20; 27:1; 27:4; 28:7; 28:7

2 Samuel

3:17; 4:8; 4:11; 5:17; 12:16; 16:11; 17:3; 17:20; 20:19; 21:1; 21:2

1 Kings

1:2; 1:3; 2:40; 10:24; 11:22; 11:40; 18:10; 19:10; 19:14; 20:7

2 Kings

2:16; 2:17; 6:19

1 Chronicles

4:39; 14:8; 16:10; 16:11; 21:3

2 Chronicles

7:14; 9:23; 11:16; 15:4; 15:15; 20:4; 20:4; 22:9

Ezra

2:62; 2:62; 8:23

Nehemiah

2:4; 2:10; 5:12; 5:18; 7:64; 12:27

Esther

2:2; 2:15; 2:15; 2:21; 2:23; 3:6; 4:8; 6:2; 7:7; 9:2

Job

10:6

Psalms

4:3; 24:6; 27:4; 27:8; 34:15; 35:4; 37:22; 37:25; 37:36; 38:13; 40:15; 40:17; 54:5; 63:10; 69:7; 70:3; 70:5; 71:13; 71:24; 83:17; 86:14; 104:21; 105:3; 105:4; 119:176; 122:9; 122:9

Proverbs

2:4; 11:27; 14:6; 15:14; 15:14; 17:9; 17:11; 17:19; 18:1; 18:15; 21:6; 23:35; 28:5; 29:10; 29:26

Ecclesiastes

3:6; 7:25; 7:28; 7:29; 8:17; 12:10

Song of Songs

3:1; 3:1; 3:2; 3:2; 5:6; 5:6; 6:1

Isaiah

1:12; 40:20; 41:12; 41:17; 45:19; 51:1; 65:1; 65:1

Jeremiah

2:24; 2:33; 4:30; 5:1; 5:1; 11:21; 19:7; 19:9; 21:7; 22:25; 26:21; 29:13; 34:20; 34:21; 38:16; 44:30; 45:5; 45:5; 46:26; 49:37; 50:4; 50:20

Lamentations

1:11; 1:19

Ezekiel

3:18; 3:20; 7:25; 7:26; 22:30; 26:21; 33:8; 34:4; 34:6; 34:16

Daniel

1:8; 1:20; 8:15; 9:3

Hosea

2:9; 2:9; 3:5; 3:5; 5:6; 5:15; 7:10

Amos

8:12

Nahum

3:7; 3:11

Zephaniah

1:6; 2:3; 2:3

Zechariah

6:7; 8:21; 8:22; 11:16; 12:9

Malachi

2:7; 2:15; 3:1

H1245

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Strong's Number H1245 matches the Hebrew בָּקַשׁ (bāqaš),
which occurs 225 times in 215 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 31:39–2Sa 4:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:39 - Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:15 - When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 - He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:9 - I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - Joseph hurried out, for he was overcome by affection for his brother and was at the point of tears. So he went to his room and wept there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:24 - Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:11 - No! Go, you men only, and serve the LORD, for that is what you want." Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh's presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 - Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone seeking the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:31 - Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:10 - He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:29 - But if you seek the LORD your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:22 - They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them to return. Their pursuers looked all along the way but did not find them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:23 - If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, "Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for." He went with her into the tent, and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead with the tent peg in his temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They said to one another, "Who did this?" They investigated the matter thoroughly and concluded that Gideon son of Joash had done it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - Now his father and mother did not realize this was the LORD's doing, because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:1 - In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:3 - The donkeys of Saul's father Kish wandered off, so Kish said to his son Saul, "Take one of the servants with you and go look for the donkeys."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel's tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin's border. They will say to you, 'The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! He is asking, "What should I do about my son?"'

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14 - Saul's uncle asked him and his servant, "Where did you go?" Saul replied, "To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, we went to Samuel."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:21 - Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of Matri was chosen by lot. At last Saul son of Kish was chosen by lot. But when they looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:14 - But now your kingdom will not continue! The LORD has sought out for himself a man who is loyal to him and the LORD has appointed him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the LORD commanded you."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - Now there was a steep cliff on each side of the pass through which Jonathan intended to go to reach the Philistine garrison. One cliff was named Bozez, the other Seneh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:16 - Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre and you will feel better."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - So Jonathan told David, "My father Saul is trying to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find a hiding place and stay in seclusion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul's presence and the spear drove into the wall. David escaped quickly that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:1 - David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, "What have I done? What is my offense? How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:16 - and called David's enemies to account." So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:23 - Stay with me. Don't be afraid! Whoever seeks my life is seeking your life as well. You are secure with me."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:10 - Then David said, "O LORD God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:15 - David realized that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - Saul and his men went to look for him. But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find David and his men in the region of the rocks of the mountain goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:9 - David said to Saul, "Why do you pay attention when men say, 'David is seeking to do you harm'?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 - "Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, it is the LORD who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:29 - When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of the living by the LORD your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling's pocket!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul arose and went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:20 - Now don't let my blood fall to the ground away from the LORD's presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - David thought to himself, "One of these days I'm going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:4 - When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:7 - So Saul instructed his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, so that I may go to her and inquire of her." His servants replied to him, "There is a woman who is a medium in Endor."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:17 - Abner advised the elders of Israel, "Previously you were wanting David to be your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, "Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against Saul and his descendants!"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?"

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